You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be white; we nail geese to a board and cram them with food because we like the taste of liver disease; we tear birds to pieces to decorate our women's hats; we mutilate domestic animals for no reason at all except to follow an instinctively cruel fashion; and we connive at the most abominable tortures in the hope of discovering some magical cure for our own diseases by them.

Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.

An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.

Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.